The Minnesota Star Tribune

1 day ago | startribune.com | Kim Hyatt

By Kim Hyatt MacKenzie Johnson said in a Facebook post that her little sister had so much more life to experience. "My heart is broken and I can't imagine a system failing a little girl so hard she felt the need to flee like she did. The police were just doing [their] job, but I don't think any social worker gave her the help she truly needed," Johnson said. The pursuit and crash remain under investigation by the BCA.

1 day ago | startribune.com | Kim Hyatt

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - After months of pushback against a multimillion-dollar police headquarters project, city leaders here are potentially reversing course. The City Council voted unanimously to re-engage with the county about police moving back into the old law enforcement center it shared with the sheriff's office for 40 years.

1 day ago | startribune.com | Thalia Beaty

The Marguerite Casey Foundation plans to significantly increase donations this year to $130 million to help nonprofits respond to policy changes from the Trump administration, especially federal funding cuts and what it calls threats to the independence of civil society organizations.

1 day ago | startribune.com | Wafaa Shurafa |Samy Magdy

1 day ago | startribune.com | Matt McKinney

Using house wrap, a big pump, and the knowledge gleaned from years of restoring old houses, semi-retired carpenter Rick Arndt waded into the St. Croix River on Tuesday in an attempt to refloat Sweet Destiny, the 54-foot motor yacht marooned on Beer Can Island near Hudson, Wis. It was unclear if he would succeed, but Arndt said he was only trying the cheapest possible solution at first, and has more ideas of how he might yet get the boat off the river.